List of awards and nominations received by Steven Spielberg

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Steven Spielberg.

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Steven Spielberg awards and nominations

Spielberg at 2017 San Diego Comic-Con for Ready Player One
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 3 24 British Academy Film Awards 4 15 Daytime Emmy Awards 7 15 Golden Globe Awards 5 20 Grammy Awards 1 1 News and Documentary Emmy Awards 0 1 Primetime Emmy Awards 4 11 Sports Emmy Awards 2 2 Tony Awards 1 3
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Wins	157
Nominations	321
Note [a] Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

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Steven Spielberg is an American filmmaker. He began his career in the New Hollywood era and is currently the most commercially successful director. Spielberg is recipient of various awards including three Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, thirteen Emmy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, three Directors Guild of America Awards, seven Producers Guild of America Awards, a Tony Award, and a Grammy Award.

Spielberg has received nine nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director making him the third most-nominated director behind Martin Scorsese (10) and William Wyler (12). Spielberg won this category twice for his Holocaust epic Schindler's List (1993) and the World War II drama Saving Private Ryan (1998). He holds the record for most nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture with fourteen nominations for the science-fiction drama E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the period drama The Color Purple (1985), Schindler's List (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), the war dramas Munich (2005), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), and War Horse (2011), the historical epics Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017), the musical West Side Story (2021), the coming-of-age drama The Fabelmans (2022), the biopic Maestro (2023), and the historical tragedy Hamnet (2025).

For his work on television, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for A Pinky and the Brain Christmas (1995), and three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series for the HBO war drama series Band of Brothers (2001), the science-fiction series Taken (2003), and the HBO war drama series The Pacific (2010). He also won seven Daytime Emmy Awards for producing the animated series Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Freakazoid!, Pinky and the Brain, and Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain. As a producer for Broadway productions he has received three nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical. He was awarded in 2022 for producing A Strange Loop, before receiving further nominations for producing both Water for Elephants (2024), and Death Becomes Her (2025). He won the Grammy Award for Best Music Film for Music by John Williams (2026), achieving EGOT status.^[1]

Over his career, Spielberg has received various honors and honorary awards including the BAFTA Fellowship in 1986, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1987, a Career Golden Lion in 1993, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, the Honorary César in 1995, the Directors Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000, a Motion Picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009, and the Honorary Golden Bear in 2023. He was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2015 and the National Medal of Arts in 2024 from President Joe Biden. He was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2001, and was made both a Knight and Officer of the France's Legion of Honour in 2004 and 2008, respectively.